<br><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Obviously, if you could afford 12 disks, it would be a lot more sensible to<br>go for a fibre attached raid or proper NAS
</blockquote><div><br>A) Where on earth are you going to get a fibre attatched RAID and a fibre channel for less than the cost of 30 disks, let alone 12?<br><br>B) 4 or 5 disks in a linux fileserver with GigE is the very definition of "proper NAS."
<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">3 cases * 4 drives = 1 NORCO DS-1210 or similar</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, a NORCO DS-1210 with 3 or 4 drives in it - which makes a lot less sense than a single case with 3 or 4 drives and stores 1/3 the data of threee boxes with 3 or 4 drives in them :)
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